Try the rear view with the quad exhausts and the difusers.

I thought that the Targa stopped making sense when the 911 Cabriolet was introduced.

Do you remember when German cars were restrained and you could barely tell apart the fast versions from the base ones?

With the pandemic trains may lose some of the appeal but essentially you are mostly right with exceptions.

Why buy a diesel for such low mileage?

My mother had two, one after the other. They were fine runabouts.

Oh god, that looks so wrong.

But the Ford has a rear drive-based chassis, so  it is better because dab of oppo.

I read the article about three times and was wondering where the hell the Spanish factory was.

Nope, front wheel drive only I think. Although maybe the CX-5 offers this engine with four wheel drive.

I think that is the magic of Mazdas. You get all the handling and engagement, but with comfort and good ride.

This is not a Mazdaspeed 3 replacement. This is a warmish hatch with a torquey engine.

It would be a perfect EU car. But we got the Skyactiv-X instead.

This.

In Europe Mazda sells a 6 Diesel with 184/445 and a six speed manual. Surely it could handle the 2.5 Turbo power and torque.

And will be far faster...

The torque figure is actually very good.

Big low down torque and not much high end power? Sounds like a perfect autobahn cruiser to me.

If all that matters is progress and innovation, why start with an old car?

This is not a Raids-type car. This is a Group 5 SM run by the PIL-Citroën team in the 70’s where regulations permitted. Thing is, with no homologation specials Citroens were hopelessly outclassed by specialised machinery in rallying.